Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed by finding bugs, submitting patches, recommending...

I was a bit hasty in my earlier post when I called the SaveFileDialog inadequate. One complaint I was going to make was simply a matter of my ignorance. It had to do with the dialog thinking that it was not initiated by the user . In particular, it was some of our Caliburn magic obscuring this. However...

We’ve been working on a Silverlight project that could be classified as a Line Of Business application (whatever that means). There have been a few places where we need to allow users to save files. First, I thought I might give you a peek as to how we do this with Caliburn . Imagine that we are displaying...

Today I’ve made the RC3 of Caliburn v1 available. I’m going to let it sit for a couple of weeks, then I will RTW. Please take time to update your code to this new version and post any bugs to the codeplex site . Any bugs not found in the next couple of weeks will have to be fixed in v2. Below...

Everywhere I look I find WPF/Silverlight developers who believe a very popular myth: You cannot update a ViewModel or an ObservableCollection from a non-UI thread. Like most myths, there is an element of truth here. But not understanding that truth can lead you to some very elaborate solutions. Here’s...

As a follow-up to my last post on MVVM , I want to further investigate the ViewModel as a concept. In commenting on my blog, one reader describes a ViewModel as “a UI oriented abstraction of the model.” In that sense, he is saying that a ViewModel (VM) is simply a contextual “View of...

I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed since RC1, its quite significant: Added the...

On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies for greater ease of use. Implemented an Application...

Recently Glenn Block asked some questions of the community concerning what support Microsoft should offer for the MVVM design pattern in WPF/Silverlight. I’d like to answer that question here, but in a round-about manner. I’m going to use this as an opportunity to talk about the origins of...

Today is a long awaited day for me. Caliburn is now in official Beta. There have been many bug fixes and a ton of new features since the Alpha release last October. We’ve also been dogfooding it on several projects, one of which is NHProf . I wanted to use this post as an opportunity...

Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex . You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn . Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online . The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created for the framework which can be found in the 'samples'...

Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios. It's goals are: Support building WPF/SL application that are TDD friendly. Implement...

Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn. I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight. It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work. There's a lot of under-the-hood improvements...

I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not addressed in the updated Beta 2 of Silverlight...